A visitor to the site submitted several questions about transference in response to an earlier post, and I thought they were so interesting and useful, they deserved a lengthy reply — hence today’s post. As a prelude, I’d like to say a few things about how I view the transference, which is different from the… Continue reading Transference: Uses and Abuses
Category: The Psychotherapy Relationship
Vacation Breaks in Psychotherapy and Defenses Against Need
Clients often react to their therapists’ vacation breaks as a kind of “abandonment”, responding in ways that shed light on their feelings about neediness and dependency.
Emotional Dependency in Psychotherapy
If psychotherapy is to be effective, the client must to a degree become emotionally dependent upon the therapist.
Depression Symptoms and the Role of Rage
Unconscious rage plays an important role in depression symptoms. Bringing that rage into awareness often leads to an improvement in those symptoms.
Attachment Theory and the Healing Psychotherapy Relationship
Adult “attachment” in the form of a deep psychotherapy relationship can lead to significant healing, years after a failed attachment during infancy.